day 233

Occasionally, Shin guards become my favourite things ever! mostly I feel this way a couple of seconds after some big buff girl kicks the absolute crap out of my shin. I love soccer I really do, but I just cant stand losing! It puts me in a bad mood for the rest of the day.
day 8: a picture that makes you laugh:
I love these pictures. I seriously nearly wet myself laughing everytime I read them. Im not sure the humour carries across though..

day 232

How is this weather? Best weather ever, I'd say.
day 7: a picture of your most treasured item.

My most treasured item would be my dress collection, I own approximately 24 dresses,. Now hear me out, I am not just a superficial materialistic 18 year old girl. Each of the dresses has a different purpose and makes me feel a certain way. The reason they are my most treasured item is because sometimes life gets too difficult, or I feel super ugly, or I just can’t see the positive in anything. When That happens I go through and put on as many, or a few, dresses as I want and they each put me in a different mood and make me feel better. So you see, the dresses are a big part of what always keeps my head above water.  

day 231

It doesnt happen too often that I catastrophically screw up the motive behind what I say. I totally did today!
(If anyone is confused about the picture, I am the blurry blob next to daryl)
Day 6: A picture of someone you would like to trade places with for a day.
I want to trade places with Daryl. Because then I could play world of warcraft for a day and also Elise would be my girlfriend, and she is great!. The reason I didnt chose Nelson Mandela or the US chief of staff is because I think that I can research their life and if i try really really hard then I can meet them. But I dont want to know what is going on in their heads. What if i were disappointed in Nelson Mandela? that would be devastating. also, I pretty sure neither of those guys rock at computer games.

day 230

I discovered how to do something really cool on photoshop, so todays photo demonstrates what it is. I love it cos it looks like Patto is licking my pupil.
Day 5: a photo of your favourite memory. the photo inside my eye is of me and patto at the 4th deb. That was such a fantastic, carefree night with a really great crew of people. way better than my actual deb. I will admit that it is not my most favouritest memory in the history of the universe but I am trying to break yesterdays stated habit so I am not going to say my very favourite.

day 229

Back to work today at the best job ever after working on the weekend at the second best job ever. My life is unfairly great.
Day 4: A photo of a habit you wish you didnt have. This picture highlights two habits I wish I didnt have. The first is my habit of editing out blemishes from photos of me, because it is changing history and that scares me a little. The second is my inability to not tell people my own secrets. I can keep other peoples secrets without a problem but when it comes to my own life I just dont hold anything back. Just once I want to be able to keep something about myself to myself.

day 228

I think the Easter bunny is getting a bit dotty. Half of our easter loot showed up 2 days after its ETA. I dont mind though because now I have awesome red sheep and love heart pyjamas. Grandparents *cough* I mean the easter bunny, rocks!

day 227

Occasionally I feel like the token younger sister for every employee at the pub. Its like they like to play a game called 'lets see how much of Cecelia's 5.5 litres of blood we can get into her face at one time.'
Day 3: A picture of the cast from your favourite TV show. I love That 70's show and my sisters love me. They started giving me a disk everytime I visited them in melbourne and then JZ moved home and she started giving me a disk everytime i got an A+ . So now I own all eight seasons.

day 226

Easter sunday! Mum and Peter set us the most ridiculously difficult easter egg hunt. Peter then felt guilty and gave us really obvious hints while mum jumped on the trampoline and teased us for being pathetic adults who cant find easter eggs. "well if you want an easy egg hunt then give me some grandchildren to hide eggs for!"
I love easter!

day 225

We did 138 main meals for lunch at the pub today. Bryan made me one of Beau's steak sandwiches minus the steak. It was sooo yummy!!
Day 2: a picture of you and a person you have been close with for awhile.
I first met Jordy when she showed up at dads work with her mum, aged 6. we became friends because I liked manipulating her and she liked my tiger backpack. We have been buddys ever since. somewhere around age 11 she became a permanent member of our family. We have been to three different continents together- no mean feat for a pair of teenagers.

day 224

Easter is my favourite holiday of the year! today is good friday and boy is it good! im still basking in the fact that i am finally home.

day 223

I drove for SEVEN HOURS today! never ever again! Alasdair and I both stank and the car was full of rubbish and the road was sooooo straight. But I am FINALLY HOME!!!

day 222

We got bored while we were waiting for the others today so Jess taught me a really cool knot called the monkeys fist, which is used for climbing in Czechoslovakia. We extrapolated it and this was the result- a super effective murder weapon.

day 221

How cool is it that this is my classroom? I was dangling 30m off the ground from an anchor system that I had made just marvelling at how ridiculously fortunate I am.

day 220

What an ARSEHOLE! The bartender at the Horsham pub is crude, sexist, racist and takes pleasure in deliberately humiliating me. I dont care how much I want a hot meal next time- I am never going back there!

day 219

I am going to be surprised if everyone lasts this week. it is a looonnnngggg 8 days. Helen and I rigged up and climbed on our very own climb. We forgot to test its strength until Helen was at the top. Luckily it held up!

day 218

Today I discovered that I am only scared of heights if there is a risk of dying. By all means dangle me off a cliff with the right right equipment- but the second I am near an edge without a safety mechanism I am more nervous than a seal playing with a polar bear.

day 217

We went on a climbing/abseiling rock journey today at Arapiles. It was a gorgeous cruisy day with the most spectacular views. Its a bit sad that I am going to bed at quarter time and the Richmond/Collingwood game is looking to be a bloodbath- and not in a good way.

day 216

First official day of climbing. It is amazing! I abseiled down a 35m cliff. SO SCARY going over the edge!! We have befriended some campers nearby, they have three gorgeous children and a roaring campfire.

day 215

Ever been to Windamere? dont ever go! Alasdair and I found ourselves in Windamere in search of a toilet and it was the most deserted creepy depressing town ever. When you find yourself popping a squat next to a tennis court in the centre of town with no-one around, you know you've reached the low point in your journey.

day 214

I am now wilderness first aid trained. its a slightly scary responsibility. I took Alasdair to Oma and Opas house. Joss, Em and I fully scarred him, it was great!

day 213

I havent thought so hard in a really long time. tonight- after a full day of learning cpr- we trainees had intense discussions about religion, politics, sexism, vegetarianism, cattle grazing and lots of other issues. Then Adrian and I developed transporting self jumping super mario double checkers (ask about it).  Then we figured out how to decapitate someone and keep them alive and THEN I taught Adrian how to do the rubiks cube.

day 212

Lets all say a solemn farewell to my hamstring. Something happened when I was playing pool on friday night. It happened again when I was playing table tennis and then i finished it of with a bout of one on one soccer. Probably playing soccer was not the best decision but there was a boy that was thinking he awesome because apparently he played for victoria. I had to deflate his head a little.
this photo is evidence of luke practising how to steri strip a wound made of texta.

day 211

What a day! I got up at 3.45am to get to tafe and I hit a wombat at 80kms an hour and nearly fell asleep so stopped and slept for 45 minutes then I got lost and ended up being super late anyway which meant that I probably could have left later to begin with.

day 210

last day of term! The sunset was so beautiful through the filter on my sunnies.

day 209

I went to a women of the valley dinner tonight. It was good but for some reason I am in an unbelievably foul mood. That may have something to do with the fact that dad is currently prequoting the matrix as he watches it- and getting lines wrong! I think bed is the only sensible step forward from here.

day 208

Ok. I have decided to incorporate into this blog the 30 day photo challenge that has been going around facebook. But here is the deal, I am not going to necessarily dedicate every day to it- there will be gaps.

Day 1. a picture of yourself with 15 facts.

1- I am left handed

2- I am a devoted Richmond supporter.

3- We got to choose our middle names: Mine is Michael.

4- I am fairly naïve and it’s not something I want to get rid of.

5- I take on average about 20 photos a day.

6- I can do a lot of cool tricks on the trampoline.

7- I want to work with disengaged teenaged boys when I am older

8- I sleep with a teddy

9- I have a doppelganger- this has been confirmed by numerous people and I really want to meet her. Her name is Stacey.

10- I play a LOT of pool

11- I think I can sing, but I am too nervous to sing in front of other people.

12- I like blonde hair and brown eyes

13- I play soccer.

14- I feature on youtube in a variety of embarrassing videos

15- My bruise has taken a turn for the psychedelic

day 207

This is so cheesy, but come on, who doesn't love a bit of cheese every now and again? Except Faith. Hate to be lactose intolerant.

day 206

Im sick. I hate being sick. It is so boring and tiresome feeling crappy.

day 205

So I was pretty excited about being able to backflip. so excited, in fact, that I wanted to take pictures in the dark of me flipping to see if the flash would pick it up. that brings us to 10.30pm last night, me on the tramp, Joss wielding the camera. In the 5 minutes following this scenario I learnt a lot of things:
1, dont do crazy stuff on the trampoline at night
2, always concentrate on landing a tricky flip
3, jumping high builds a LOT of momentum for when things go wrong
4, It hurts like crazy when you slam your chin and neck into a steel bar
5, you are too soccer crazy if your first thought is "oh crap I've broken my jaw so I wont be able to play soccer tomorrow."
6, when your hand is inexplicably wet from holding your jaw, it probably means you are bleeding
7, when you feel a steady dripping sensation, it probably means you are bleeding A LOT.
8, It transpired that i am quite afraid of the prospect of chin stitches.
9, small scratches can become big arse bruises overnight
10, dont trust Jocelyn to get photos of all of this because the silly girl will be too worried with your wellbeing.
Injury register: fairly deep split in my chin, crazy sore jaw, super long superficial scratch down my arm, huge pretty bruise on the other arm and a neck that feel like someone clocked it with a crow bar. But I can still backflip!

day 204

I CAN DO A BACKFLIP!! I have finally conquered the only trick that has eluded me all of these years. I turns out i only needed two things: supervision and motivation.
Supervision: Mum standing next to the trampoline encouraging and helping me work up to it.
Motivation: Having a boy get on the trampoline and pull off the only trick I couldnt do. My competitivness got the best of me.